Fox Shaped Hug Machine (Erika) @foxwitch@queer.af

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I'll always remember this pandemic as that time companies and organizations proved that they were always completely capable of implementing every single thing disabled people have asked for in the past, but actively chose not to do so.

decommodifying housing would fix so many problems its fucking wild to think about

the great irony of the "housing crisis" is that it is not a crisis in the supply of housing. there are plenty of houses and apartments, all the problems are caused by their use as financial instruments.

the democrats could instantly win the elections if they went hard on defunding the police just by raw opinion numbers and the fact that they don't tells you exactly who and what they're committed to

Indigenous activists are protesting at Mount Rushmore, claiming their right to the land under the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie.

https://twitter.com/UR_Ninja/status/1279219875475607552

Stuff that should be done more often by unions, but I'm not seeing enough of:

- Limit interactions with the workplace off the clock to negotiating shifts and even then only in a certain time frame with a minimum amount of notice set.
- Ban employers from installing DRM and spyware on personal or work computers which are used from home. This includes apps that require root access checks (to make sure your device is not rooted) to work, or send telemetry about system use outside of the work application when it is not running.
- End discriminatory hiring practices by utilizing blind, qualifications-based processes for interviews and applications
- Have unions invest in promising R&D projects so that the next generation of tools is worker owned/controlled and doesn't automate jobs out of existence for long-term job security (and to strengthen labor's negotiating power)
- Be prepared to abolish capitalism and remember the oppositional relationship between Capitalists and the working class
- Tell cops and other oppressors to fuck off
- Not become a hierarchical bureaucracy indistinguishable from the the corporation being organized against (important!)
- Recognize that work fucking sucks

Inspired by Frederick Douglass's speech, "What To A Slave Is The Fourth Of July?" Daveed Diggs asks, "What To My People Is The Fourth of July?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuCeUyItpzE

Thinking about a variant of "DEFUND POLICE" that speaks more directly to the idea of "stop giving all our money to cops and invest it in helping poor people instead".

Suggestions for improving these images, as well as other visual metaphors for budget allocation, are welcome.

just because we live in an unjust society where there is no ethical consumption or production does not mean you no longer have a duty to minimize the harm you cause and put into the world

RT @NikkitaOliver@twitter.com

For all y’all talking about “we can’t have lawlessness”: What do you call it when cops murder without consequence? When a mayor violates the municipal code? Shouldn’t the people in power be held to highest level of accountability when it comes to following the law?

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/NikkitaOliver/status/1278470760189751296

RT @DujieTahat@twitter.com

While Durkan talks about memorializing CHOP through art and the garden—even as 36+ political prisoners were thrown in jail today—I’m reminded of Malcolm X quote “The white man will try to satisfy us with symbolic victories rather than economic equity and real justice.”

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DujieTahat/status/1278451157443112960

PSA: cloth and paper masks worn to help prevent spread of Coronavirus (and other diseases) do not need to form a seal to be effective.

They do two things:
a. capture most of the droplets you exhale/cough/sneeze out
b. slow down (and thus reduce the range of) any droplets not caught

If you have two layers of fabric covering your nose and mouth, you are wearing a fabric mask correctly.

If breath reflects off of them and escapes around the edges, that is just fine -- the bulk of the droplets were caught, and those few that leave around the edges are slowed a ton. Mission accomplished.

Misinformation on this point (most of which seems to be repeating proper fit and donning for PPE masks, which do need to form a seal) is leading people to not wear masks because they believe they are difficult or impossible to wear correctly.

Reddit is doing the bare fucking minimum because the heat is too fucking hot. That's what the current news is, what it has been previously and what it will always be.

They have no actual desire to be proactive about moderation and if you believe this is them turning a new leaf as their public post suggests, I have a bridge to sell you.

OSHWA has come out with a set of recommendations for replacing master/slave terminology in SPI:
https://www.oshwa.org/a-resolution-to-redefine-spi-signal-names
Don't let the door hit you on the way out, MOSI/MISO.

Adding ISPs to your trusted resolver program makes the program useless. It's them you're trying to shield yourself against in the first place.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/06/25/comcasts-xfinity-internet-service-joins-firefoxs-trusted-recursive-resolver-program/

Your hardware will betray you.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/research/2020/06/moroccan-journalist-targeted-with-network-injection-attacks-using-nso-groups-tools/

Oi, friendlies.
Leave your snitchphone at home.

Put it in airplane mode, if you just really can't tear yourself away from it (or if it's your only way to document the protest-breakers).

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/protests-tech-company-spying

Seriously, this like half a step away from enabling realtime targeting.

Protect yourself, protect the people you're fighting for.

people are like "wow, can't believe the US has a 600 billion dollar military budget to spend on riot cops and psyops that are deployed against its own citizens to prevent them from peacefully organizing and protesting. how awful"

and then they're like "why can't these stupid Americans get together a cooperative community response against covid but instead have a ton of disorganization and unrest about it? damn haha gotta love Americans, so entitled"

oh yeah that reminds me everyone should know this